The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-06-09

fernal machine was given to Jersey OK
pressman for Inspector Byrnes, but wa
safely turned over to police headquarter
/ and opened without an explosion.
At Key West, Florida, on June 3, thu
total number of cases Of yellow fever tx
that date were thirteen, of which number
four have resulted fatally. Six are now
sick and three convalescent.
Spring floods are reported from numer
GUS places in Montana and Idaho, and
elsewhere, caused by the scorching
weather which prevailed just previous tc
the more recent cooler weather.
The Chinese have declined to subscribe
money for the new Chinese railway, and
in consequence the Compte de Paris
has contracted to send the Chinese gov
ernment three millions for the purpose.
Another train robbery was committed in
Texas, just west of Fort Worth, last Sat-
urday by four masked men, who took
$1,eao from A Texas & Pacific express
train. The passengers were unmolested.
VIM. Armstrong and - Wieman, mur-
derer and train wrecker respectively,
made good their escape from the terri
torial prison at Haley, Idaho. Outside
friends are supposed to have assisted
them.
Ex-Vice President William A. Wheeler
died at his home in Malone, New York,
last Saturday. He was born at that
place in 1919, and educated at the univer-
sity of Vermont. He practiced law until
1851.
In the Catholic cathedral at Chihua-
hua, Mexico, last Thursday, candle
falling and setting fire to the altar caused
panic, in which several children and
two women were killed and many others
seriously hurt.
Rear Admiral Shufeldt, of the United
States navy, has commenced a libel suit
against the proprietor of the Shanghai
Courier, growing out of an article in ref
erence to the Admiral's presence and mo-
tives in Corea.
The clerk in charge of the Indian in
dustrial farm at Nisqually has entered
protest against the building of the Cas-
cade division of the N. P. through their
ground, and asks the government to for
bid the right of way.
! William B. Page has broken the Amer
lean running high Jump record by clear
ing SIX feet one inch. He will graduate
at an eastern college in June, and will
make an effort to defeat the present anna
teur champion of England.
Two hundred head of dairy cattle, le-
longing to Edward Brady, of West
chester county, Pennsylvania, were found
suffering from pneumonia and ordered
killed by the dairy commissioners, wi o
awarded the owner $4,000.
The boiler of the Natchez cotton fac
tory at Natchez, Miss, exploded last
week, causing the roof to fall in. One
hundred and fifty men, women and
were in the building at the time,
but all but five were rescued alive.
Native warriors invaded the British set
Elements at Sierra Leone last week, pill
laying and burning villages and taking
300 prisoners. At Sulymot and on the
Manoh river they we're repulsed by the
French and English laborers and police
md were finally put to fight.
A man named Stevens raped the little
ive-year-old daughter of George
at Ketchum, Idaho, last
week. The father seemed to find sufic-
ent revenge in administering terrible
'eating to Stevens and letting him leave
own before he could be arrested.
Senator Stanford, in an interview at
LOS Angeles, last Friday, was asked his
opinion of the statement of Senator Ed
nunds as to his being the most available
epublican candidate for the presidency.
The senator replied that he had not given |
he matter much thought; any man would |
eel honored by the compliment, but he
limself would make no great effort to OBJ
ain the nomination.
At Glendownville, Pa, society has been
realty excited over the elopement about
wo weeks ago of Ida Werner, the beauti-
al and accomplished daughter of the
ldest and wealthiest citizen of the town,
nth one Bill Thompson, her fathers
egro coachman and gardner. Miss Wer-
er is twenty years old, Thompson thirty
our and married. She left behind her a
otter for her mother which shows most
her evident desire not to go
Though compelled by her infatuation.
President Grevy of France has sue
eeded in persuading Bouvier to form
abinet, as follows: Bouvier, premier
nd finance; Flourens, foreign affairs;
'puller, justice; Follieries, interior; Gen